[MPlayer-users] The future of mplayer

[Ketil Z. Malde]

Juho Vähä-Herttua <juhovh at iki.fi> writes:

> First of all, the debian guys were right. Your program is not really 
> distributable in binary form. First of all it should be possible to 
> easily add new codecs to program without recompiling it. 

Why?  I mean, sure, I agree a pluggable architecture with a generic
interface is a nice concept, but I think it also makes things more
complex.  Why couldn't a binary distribution just ship with as many
modules (codecs) as possible?  Or, barring that, ship several
different packages with different selections of modules?

> And then mencoder... Can't you just make two separate programs

Personally, since I'm not a developer, I couldn't care less.  Let the
developers do what they feel is most efficient!

> Third thing is that you have to cut off some features, it just can't go 
> on like this.

I haven't followed the bug reports closely, but my impression is
things are stabilizing nicely.

> still your usability just sucks.

Not sure I agree with that.  Having everything (devices, languages,
etc) on a right-click menu is pretty neat, IMHO.  

Being able to do simple things simply (ie. mplayer -dvd 1 without any
need to navigate byzantine DVD menus) is also usability.

-kzm
-- 
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